I got a message regarding how much is left of this book and I'm not going to lie, I have no idea. I haven't decided how I wanted to end this. But as soon as I figure it out I will let you guys know!
Chapter 38
Lucas didn't really care at all that it was pouring down rain outside, or the fact that he was shirtless and barely managed to put on shoes. The only thing he cared about, the only thing on his mind was Riley. It took less than 2 minutes to get to her room. The quarterback threw open the already unlocked window and crawled inside. "Princess."
Once he saw her burying herself underneath the blankets that's when it hit him. She hates thunderstorms. "L-Lucas."
"I'm here." Riley instantly shifted over and tossed open her comforter. "I'm wet princess."
"I don't care. I'm so tired, but I can't—I can't sleep please." She whimpered as her eyes were barely opened.
A small smile appeared on his cheeks and after locking the bedroom door he nestled in beside her. "How can I say no to your beautiful face?"
"Easy. Just don't." She delivered bluntly while burying her face into his neck, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I wanted to see you. I was going to call but figured you'd be asleep." He hugged her tightly into his chest.
"I mean for today. I know it wasn't your fault." She whispered sleepily.
"I know you were just upset princess. I'm not mad at you, at all. You have nothing to apologize for." Right after he finished speaking a clash of thunder erupted through her room and unintentionally she let out a small yelp. "Hey don't focus on that. Focus on me, talk to me."
She craned her neck to look into his pale green eyes with a little help from his pointer finger. She took note of how much they had dulled just from the events of today and that saddened her heart. "This is weird. I don't like thunderstorms but I love rain."
"You don't like the abrupt noise of the thunder. It's not weird." His thumb caressed her cheek. Her face was clear of any makeup and her hair was in a messy bun sitting on top of her head. There was nothing obstructing his view of her natural beauty. "You are so gorgeous."
"Thank you." The brunette whispered.
Her chocolate orbs consistently darted from his eyes to his mouth and back again. The hand that was caressing her cheek moved to the back of her neck. "You're welcome." With one quick motion his lips crashed against hers. Riley was caught off guard by the immediate movement but quickly fell into his embrace. Their lips were moving in sync with one another as she abruptly climbed on top of him. Her hands teased at his skin as she caressed his abs causing a deep moan from the back of his throat.
The quarterback went underneath her shirt and dominantly gripped her sides. "Mine." He whispered against her lips before rolling to hover over her. His lips drug across her collarbone and over her shoulder before nibbling at her neck.
"Please." She begged and after Lucas furrowed his brows he kissed her again. He loved kissing Riley but there was something different about her lips tonight. They were almost, desperate. Clinging to his for dear life, and that's when he realized it. She was desperate for any attention that wasn't humiliation.
He swiped his tongue against her bottom lip and she allowed him entrance. Riley snaked her legs around his waist and tugged him into her. She gasped at his hardened member pressed against her core. Lucas' hands caressed her sides and occasionally his calloused hands would run down her thigh. "I'm ready." She mumbled before kissing him again.
"No." He whispered and began to kiss her neck knowing she'd have a mouth full.
"Please." She whined, disappointment laced in with the word. Wow that's it?
"No. You're upset, I'm not going to do that to you. Just enjoy this." He demanded.
He nibbled on her neck and enjoyed the small moans that escaped her lips. Within seconds her moans turned to whimpers and the quarterback instantly pulled away. "Princess, no. No, no, no why are you upset?" He caressed her cheek and rested his forehead against hers.
"Talk to me baby."
The brunette shrugged and played at the hem of her shirt. "You don't want me?"
"Do NOT ever say that." The words escaped his mouth before he could even process them. They escaped before he could control the anger that rested within each syllable. "You are all I will ever want. Don't ever say that again. Why would you think that?"
She gulped and fidgeted with her tank top. "Because I offered you sex and you turned me down."
Lucas sat her up in the bed and held her tight. "Princess, I'm not going to do that to you. You've had an incredibly awful day. I get wanting love, and I will give that to you. As much as you want." She got off of her knees and wrapped her long legs around his waist. "I will love you more than you can handle. But do you honestly want our first time together to be like this? You breaking up with me not even 24 hours ago, and you crying all day because of terrible people?"
Riley shook her head and tapped her fingertips against his chest.
"I want our first time to be the best night of your life. And I want us to be together. But don't you think for even one second that I don't want you."
They sat in silence on top of her purple blanket. She was sitting in his lap with her legs snaked around his neck and her face buried into his neck. Neither moved for what could probably have been an hour, and it wasn't until Lucas felt the grip around his waist weaken and heard her light snores that the quarterback knew she was asleep. He used his core to bring himself to his knees as slowly as possible and gently laid her down against the mattress.
Lucas thought all in all he did a great job, she was still asleep even after he had to unravel his hands from underneath her. "Lucas." Or so he thought.
"Yeah princess."
"Thank you for loving me like this."
He smiled and kissed her temple before tugging her into his chest. "It's the easiest thing I've ever had to do."
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Riley woke up the next morning and unfortunately Lucas was gone, her mind still buzzing from the events of yesterday made her oblivious to the knock on her door and the sound of it opening. "Sis?"
"Hey bubba." She sighed and tousled her hair.
"I'm going to assume you aren't going to school?" The brunette's chin trembled and she simply shook her head no trying to disguise the tears that had pooled in her eyes. "Hey no please don't cry." He hurriedly crawled beside her in bed. "I'm so sorry, I was trying to make you laugh." He now knew how far his sister had fallen with this disgusting stunt. A few weeks ago she was laughing at the frost bite caused by the bucket of water that had fallen on her. A few weeks ago she was telling everyone she didn't need a baby sitter after the closet incident. A few weeks ago she was able to joke with herself, but not this time.
Not anymore. "How's peaches?"
"I don't really know she texted me that she wanted some alone time. So I told her that was fine and that I loved her, but what's going on with you two?"
The brown eyed girl wiped her eyes and gave him a hug with a small, forced smile. "Just keep an eye on her for me will you?"
"Always." He whispered, "Mom and dad went to talk to the superintendent. I don't really know what's going to happen from here. But, do you want me to stay here with you?"
More than anything Riley wanted to be alone, she needed to sort and compartmentalize her life again. There were many questions whirling through her mind. But despite it all the thought that stood out the most was, Lucas. How she treated him so cruel yesterday and he came running to her twice. He soothed her during the storm, soothed her fears of him leaving, and despite everything still loved her. "No. It's okay, I think it's best if I'm left alone for a little while."
He seemed skeptical and it didn't go unnoticed by his sister. "Trust me Josh, I don't plan on doing that again. I'm stronger despite the way I look, I have people who love me." His lips touched her forehead.
"Good. Call me if you need anything, and I mean anything. I'll run out of class-"
"I get it Josh. Thanks."
30 minutes had passed of Josh leaving her and the house had never been more silent, she was regretting telling her brother to leave. She reached for her phone in hopes it would distract her even for a few moments, and hopefully there might be some texts from Maya, but her straight lips curved into a smile when there were some texts from Lucas.
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Thank you for letting me console you last night. I love you more than anything my beautiful princess. Despite this rough patch, I will always be there for you.
Always.
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I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you'd been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I saw you, you never left.
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I just wanted to thank you for being my reason to look forward to the next day.
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The first time I saw you my heart whispered 'that's the one'.
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You were lying next to me last night and I was half asleep wondering what I did to deserve you. And while you're breathing easily, I was thinking of what I can do for you tomorrow to be better for you then I was today.
Riley wiped her face dry and felt the genuine smile on her lips. Her doorbell rang and knowing exactly who it was she sprinted towards the door. Her smile faltered but never fell, "Chris." Her arms snaked around his neck. "Hi."
"Hey beautiful. How're you feeling?"
She gestured for him to come in and passed her a bouquet of daisies as he did so. "I've definitely been better but, I'm not awful. There are people who go through far worse. Thank you for these flowers they're beautiful." The brunette sauntered into the kitchen and dried her face repeatedly ensuring it wasn't incredibly noticeable she was crying.
But she knew Chris saw right through her. "Why're you crying?"
Figures. "I uh, I don't know. Lucas sent me some texts and I just- well they got to me." She reached for a vase and clipped the ends of the flowers. "So what are you doing here?"
"I had to check on you, I gave you your space yesterday because you needed it." He knew that whenever she lost control of her emotions they'd be difficult for her to reign in and after finding out she broke up with Lucas, his suspicion was confirmed. So he made sure to steer clear. "You shouldn't be at home by yourself."
Riley clenched her jaw and decided to brush it off. "I'm fine Chris, like I told Josh I'm stronger now. I promised you and I kind of have Lucas and even though Maya hates me right now. I still have her, and my family and Farkle. And ever since he got my new number he's been blowing my phone up begging to come see me."
The dark haired man chuckled lightly and fiddled with his fingertips. "Maya's pissed because you're thinking of going to a new school isn't she?"
Her brows furrowed, "You know if you weren't Chris I would be curious to know how you knew about me contemplating switching schools." That's when it hit her, "Lucas."
"Lucas." He confirmed, "What's up with that?"
She shrugged lightly and decided to make some breakfast. "I'm not going to lie, I blamed him at first. It was the picture he had hanging in his locker that I just found out was missing. He didn't tell me about that, and if I had just never dated him then this would never have happened."
"But people should be allowed to hang pictures of beautiful girls in their lockers and we have no idea what Missy would have done if you had broken up with him. Girls like her don't just stop tormenting people." The brunette nodded in agreeance. "You regret it." Again she nodded knowing exactly what he was talking about. More like who he was talking about, and continued cracking eggs in the pan. "So fix it."
"Scrambled for you?"
"You're avoiding it. Why?"
"You don't like scrambled?" She questioned, "Over medium then?"
Chris slid off the bar stool and gave her a hug. "Listen to me carefully Riley, I knew you were going to boil over with your emotions yesterday but you and Lucas were gone before I could warn him. You reacted completely on emotion which isn't normally something you'd do, so that's how I know you regret it. You don't want to fix it because you're terrified of what the repercussions would be, but Missy won't be around anymore. And also, why give her the satisfaction of breaking you two apart?" She sighed and squeezed him a little tighter. "I know you need space, I know you need time to think all of this through because you aren't reacting completely on emotion anymore, but you also need Lucas whether you want to admit that or not."
"What-"
He shushed her and held her even tighter. "It's rude to interrupt. I know you love Lucas, and I know he loves you and though I hate to admit it I'm jealous." The brunette was about to interrupt again but bit her tongue, "I want to tell you that I like you Riley, but it's because I like you that I want you to work things out with Lucas. I want you to be happy and he's the thing that makes you happy." Tears fell down her face with his words and he hurriedly wiped them away with a quick flick of his thumb. "Was I that terrible at this whole consoling thing?"
"No, it isn't you." She mumbled through her tears and laughter. "I just—first I never thought you'd like me, you always compared me to your sister and I thought that was flattering." She joked.
"You do, but did you honestly think I was going to tell Lucas that I had feelings for you? I'm strong but he's, well Lucas Friar." They both laughed and she pulled away from him politely, "I do want you happy. And even though it isn't with me, I will still be here for you." His lips touched her forehead, "and as for the whole admitting my feelings for you thing, let's just keep that on the DL."
"Deal. But let me just say that Chris you are one of my closest friends and whoever you end up dating is going to be the luckiest girl in the world." His blue eyes brightened and gave her a boyish grin with a simple nod.
She tousled her hair that she let loose from the messy bun and continued to make breakfast. "And Riley?"
"Yes?"
"Scrambled is fine."
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"Hey baby girl." Josh landed beside his girlfriend's locker with a smile. And he got a scowl in return, "What's with the scowl? A beautiful face should not hold such angry expressions."
"I'm mad at you. Now leave me alone." Her locker slammed shut and though this wasn't the time to laugh Josh muffled a laughter at Maya's bluntness. Most of the time girls wouldn't outright say they were mad they'd torture their significant other for hours at least by ignoring them. "Seriously you're laughing right now?!"
"Sorry." He composed himself, "Sorry baby girl. You were just so frank, now do you want to tell me why you're pissed at me or is this one of those fun guessing games you girls do?"
The blonde narrowed her eyes, "Let's just continue with my blunt honesty shall we?" He gestured for her to continue with a smirk. "Riley's switching schools and YOU didn't tell me!"
He furrowed his brows and that's when everything came into place. Why Maya was ignoring her best friend when she needed her most, and why Riley asked for him to keep an eye on her. And that's when his anger came to light. "Excuse you?"
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